Sri Lanka

Troubled waters of Sri Lanka
- PAN AP
- 04 October 2012
In 2008, the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority launched the Kalpitiya Dutch Bay Resort Development Project, displacing many traditional fishing and farming communities.
Sri Lanka’s Touchwood acquires land in Cambodia to set up an agricultural project
- News360.lk
- 10 September 2012
Sri Lanka’s Touchwood Investments PLC has acquired 11,138 hectares of land in Cambodia to set up an agricultural project to plant rubber and other crops.
Organisations in Asia strategise in opposing land grabbing
- PANAP
- 20 July 2012
Participants from various communities shared documented cases, stories and photos of how large-scale investments of local and foreign owned companies are displacing communities and how people oppose such type of investments.
The search for food security gains momentum
- Asia Sentinel
- 09 April 2012
India, which doesn’t allow corporate farming domestically, has joined the growing list of countries going overseas to look for food security.
Sri Lanka seeks investment in agriculture
- Emirates 24/7
- 05 Mar 2012
Sri Lanka is opening up its farmland to attract international investment and is keen on building business partnerships with Gulf based firms.
Somawathiya National Park Falls Victim to Unscrupulous Developmental Projects
- Dhamsara
- 31 October 2011
It concerns 5000 acres of the Somawathiya National Park in Sri Lanka being cleared for a large-scale banana plantation by an international agribusiness company, Dole.
A new wave of land grabbing exposed in Sri Lanka
- War On Want
- 08 August 2011
A recently uncovered cabinet memorandum has provided details of the new “Sri Lankan Land Alienation Policy to Promote Development Activities”.
Apex launch The Africasia Funds
- Apex Fund Services
- 23 July 2011
The first Africasia Sustainable Farming Fund will be investing in land across the Africasia region and in Sri Lanka to take advantage of the current post war economic boom in the country and the demand and shortfall for basic food crops in the region and globally, reports Apex Fund Services, a UK-based hedge fund
Saudi businessmen encouraged to invest in Sri Lanka
- ColomboPage
- 18 May 2011
Sri Lanka's Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen invites Saudi businessmen to invest in Sri Lanka and says his country can cultivate agricultural crops for Saudi Arabia.
Global land grabbing: Eroding food sovereignty
- PAN AP
- 14 January 2011
Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs
Catching Cambodia on the cusp of development
- Financial Times
- 14 February 2010
Leopard Capital's second Cambodian fund is expected to continue investment in agriculture, as well as potentially including investment in Laos.
Peasant groups launch Asia-wide actions against global land grabbing
- Asian Peasant Coalition
- 25 July 2009
One of the objectives of the caravan is to send the Asian peasants’ strong message against global land grabbing and inspire other peasants worldwide.